„He was allowed to complete his film without any interference but then it was promptly banned. In 1980, at the height of Solidarity, Skolimowski was invited back to Poland to bring Hands Up! ‚more up-to-date‘ with a view to releasing it. He removed more than a third of the footage and replaced it with film he had shot in London and Beirut (where he had been acting in Volker Schlöndorff’s Circle of Deceit) with intimations of a future military takeover in Poland…

In this form Hands Up! was shown at Cannes in 1981 reportedly running 90 minutes. It then disappeared from circulation to finally emerge in 1985 cut to 79 minutes including the new prologue of 25 minutes. What is left is a hybrid of 54 minutes of the historically resonant original and a prologue of fragments resembling a film diary combined with staged footage.“

Eine Nachfrage in der DVDBeaver-Liste ergab folgendes:

Peter,

According to the information from the website SPI [the publisher of the box] this is 75 min version. This is probably the original version of the movie, since according to:http://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php/121051
Skolimowski added only the prologue to the original version in 1981, but in the theatrical 1985 version the prologue was removed. So it seems that 1985 version is the original 1967 uncensored version of the movie.“ (kloczkow)